sp4rk@???:
> I was trying to get Tails running on Qubes. I used the most recent qubes live
> cd and afterwards added tails (1.7) as a HVM virtual machine. It booted
> without problems but when the gui wants to start only a blinking icon is
> visible and the rest of the screen is black. I'm not sure if this is a tails
> or qubes issue. A debian jessie xfce live cd worked without problems as well
> as kali linux. Knoppix didn't go far beyond the boot screen and a ghost bsd
> iso booted into the gui, though the mouse did not work. Any ideas what could
> be the problem with tails or what one could do to troubleshoot the problem?
> Is there some possibility to not start the gui and just boot to the terminal?
I would suggest that you try with a Jessie-based Tails nightly build:
http://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_feature-jessie/builds/lastSuccessfulBuild/archive/build-artifacts/
Obviously, since this is not a stable release, do so only for testing
purposes. Please report your results back here!
Cheers!